PSL for Chicklet

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Atom's friends from school had left the diner a little earlier. He had volunteered to hang onto to supplies for their group project, and took a while longer packing all the papers and supplies into his backpack before leaving.

As he headed out the door, the restaurant staff smiled and said good bye to him, thanking him as they did every customer who stopped in. He looked back to wave to them, not paying attention to who or what was on the sidewalk when he first stepped out from under the awning of the building.

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[upupatomway]

"A milkshake?" the robot repeats in surprise. Atom watches with wide eyes. "Of course, Miss! What flavor would you like your milkshake to be?"

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She considered. "Neapolitan, please." Because that meant she got three flavors of ice cream in a single shake!

[upupatomway]

"I'll have that out to you as soon as possible!" The robot hurries back behind the counter to scoop the neapolitan into a milk shake cup and asks Atom if he knows what he wants. Atom laughs, having forgotten to make a decision with the distraction of Skuld's order. He ends up asking for two scoops of the banana ice cream. The robot starts up the shake machine after pouring milk in and scoops Atom's much smaller order while it runs. When all is ready, the robot brings the two orders to the table, and Atom takes a seat across from Skuld.

"I've never had banana ice cream before," Atom muses before tasting his first spoonful.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Oh! It is super good!" she told him, happily. It was ice cream, of course it was super good!

[upupatomway]

"The consistency is a little thicker than vanilla," he notes. "I use vanilla as a comparison since it's considered the base flavor by most people and was the first type I ever ate."

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"I don't know why most people consider it basic or plain," she said. Vanilla is really yummy and hear on Earth in this dimension, it is expensive and hard to get."

[upupatomway]

"Maybe because it goes so well with most other flavors?"

He pauses and blinks at her. "In this dimension?" he echoes.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She nodded. "Just alongside this one," she agreed, working on her ice cream.

[upupatomway]

"How many dimensions have you been to besides this one? How many are there?" This is getting into territory he had only read theories and fantasy stories on.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"There are lots of them," she said, licking her spoon clear. Then she smiled a bit sheepishly. "I don't really travel much, though..."

[upupatomway]

"Just going between two of them is impressive! I've only read about theories. Nobody from the human world has figured out how to travel between them. Or if they have, they haven't published it yet."

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Doesn't stop others from coming here though. Like the Machiners," she said as she finished off the last spoon of her ice cream. She eyed the bowl mournfully.

[upupatomway]

"The Machiners? Who are they?" he asks. "Should I be worried about them?"

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Worried about them? Why?"

[upupatomway]

"You looked worried when you mentioned them... So I wondered if they were trouble..." he says slowly, hoping the subject isn't far too sensitive to talk about. "Sometimes I help people when there's trouble."

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She blinked then shook her head. "Oh. No. Sorry. Just... out of ice cream and trying to remember how much money I brought to see if I can afford another."

[upupatomway]

"Oh!" Atom laughs at his mistake. "Don't worry. If you come up a little short I'll cover the rest of the cost for you. There are still other flavors you need to try!"

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Really?!" She asked, overjoyed.

[upupatomway]

"Sure! Go ahead and order another round." It doesn't occur to him yet that his wallet might hurt later. That's a future Atom problem though.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"THANKS!" she said happily, and bounded to the counter to order a kitchen sink with two scoops of everything and then an extra four scoops of vanilla on top of that.

[upupatomway]

The robot behind the counter is surprised but gets scooping. They tell her she can wait at the table and they will bring it to her soon.

"The kitchen sink? Isn't that the largest thing on the menu?" Atom asks. He thought she'd be going for another bowl the same size. She wasn't kidding about how much ice cream she wanted!

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She nodded and went back to her seat, happily. "Yes, thank you!"

[upupatomway]

"Do your sister drink the same amount of tea and sake? Goddesses must have special stomachs!" He's trying to think of how large a human's stomach typically is. Could it be a matter of a larger size or is it magic?

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Urd drinks even more sake than I get ice cream," she complained a bit. Notice how she didn't complain about Belldandy?

[upupatomway]

He's not sure if he should ask if Urd gets drunk off the sake. She must drink an amount that would be harmful to a human. Maybe that's part of why Skuld doesn't like how much sake Urd gets but is okay with her other sister's tea drinking.

"Maybe you can convince her to switch to ice cream and you can fill a freezer with it? Then you'd always have some around."